TV/Cable News

It's another big week at Spot TV for the accident attorney specialist who began life as an Orlando-based operation big on local radio advertising and is today the most prominent law firm in its category.

After 41 years on the job and 12 moves across the country, a Gray Media regional VP/General Manager has decided it’s time to retire from local broadcast media. “It’s been one heck of a ride — especially considering this career was never really on my radar!,” says Matt Pumo.

The publicly traded owner of broadcast TV stations headquartered in Cincinnati and led by CEO Adam Symson has selected "a seasoned media sales leader" to head small and medium business growth and direct response advertising initiatives across the company's operations.

Data accuracy and validation firm Truthset has forged a "strategic integration" with Comcast-owned FreeWheel, the connected TV-focused ad tech platform. This, FreeWheel says, allows advertisers to activate its independently validated Data Rated Audiences (DRAs) across the platform's Connected TV advertising ecosystem.

There's a big competitor to Poshmark that very much wants to capture a large segment of the U.S. online clothing resale market. And, it has been investing heavily in Spot Cable to gain greater awareness while growing its customer base.

News-Press & Gazette Co. has long been a pioneer of digital television, with its California Central Coast operation among the first stations in the U.S. to embrace the current standard. Now, NPG Media has transitioned its ATSC 3.0 broadcast signal signing to the certificate authority operated by Silicondust.

An employee-led vote has resulted in the discontinuation of representation by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) at KOMO-TV in Seattle-Tacoma. That said, the vote wasn't an unanimous one.

The net proceeds from the notes are being used to redeem $675 million outstanding principal amount of Gray’s 10.5% senior secured first lien notes due 2029 and to repay $21 million of outstanding borrowings under Gray’s revolving credit facility.

Atlanta Braves fans will be able to watch a pair of the Major League Baseball team's games in Spanish, thanks to an agreement between the club and Gray Media's Telemundo affiliate group, one of the NBCUniversal network's largest.

The digitally distributed Scripps News information service owned by The E.W. Scripps Co. has launched a new initiative that the company says is designed to strengthen the relationship between journalists and consumers.

It was highly likely to happen again, starting yesterday evening. Thanks to savvy negotiation between the two parties, a retransmission consent fee dispute leading to a "blackout" of Hearst stations on the DBS provider was averted.

Draper Media is telling viewers of the CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates serving the Delmarva Peninsula in Eastern Maryland, Delaware and Virginia's Chincoteague region that broadcast transmissions are currently being hampered by what the company says is "a Verizon outage."

Even as consumers continue to gravitate toward streaming platforms, the "new fall season" and Upfronts remain an essential cog in the wheel of U.S. television. As such, accurate and dependable ratings data remains a key need for the networks and affiliates over the next year. Nielsen has spoken.

The notes were priced at 100% of par, and the offering of the notes is expected to close on Friday, subject to customary closing conditions. Gray will use the net proceeds of the offering to redeem a portion of Gray’s outstanding 10.5% senior secured first lien notes due 2029, among other needs.

The European online clothing reseller that's seeking to attract the Poshmark crowd continues to invest heavily in promoting itself through Spot Cable advertising, the latest Spot Ten report from Media Monitors shows.